Disaster Relief Training Program

[SARMedTech]

In IMERT we use START triage. 30 seconds per patient and move on. Ive often thought that getting your local CAP squadron or Wing associated with the DMAT team in your state, if you have one. Here in IL, we are trying to develop a relationship with CAP for flying our command staff, medical supplies. It seems like what CAP can come up, or has  come up with so far for is not translatable to a mass casualty disaster situation. Thats why in IL we have a medical disaster team, an urban search and rescue team, a WMD team and a terrorism task force. What we would end with if CAP wades  further into ES/DR than we already are is alot of duplication of service and alot of people tripping over each other and jockeying to be in charge. Everything that has been mentioned that CAP could do is already out there. Training in WMD is great, but what are you going to do with it. You cant treat medically to any extent, we dont have HAZMAT assets. Maybe wing and squadron commanders should, instead of trying to come up with a program by smushing alot of classes together and thinking that it makes a DR team is to start  working with the assets your individual states have in place and asking them how you can fit in and how you can be of assistance. This is what DMATs do. They show up and say how can we help?